If you've got engineers who are happy running wires around and have a basic knowledge of a *NIX OS then go for a Raspberry Pi. Power it from the aircraft's aux supply, USB for remote, SD card/s for your music storage, set playlists etc on the ground by plugging in a monitor, mouse and keyboard. No lock-in, entirely open source, easy to integrate with the systems however you like and no wireless signal for the FAA/CAA etc to worry about.
If car A is going 10m/s faster that a car B (which is doing 50m/s) then car A is carrying 1100 extra energy units.
If car A is going 10m/s faster that a car B (which is doing 70m/s) then car A is carrying 1500 extra energy units.
Slowing from 80m/s to 70m/s is 36% harder than slowing from 60m/s to 50m/s, despite both having a 10m/s reduction in speed.
This all discounts the fact that all of the trees, bridges etc have a speed of 0m/s. Going at the same speed as another car doesn't help when you hit a tree.
Yup, there are drivers who can drive without using the brakes because they're looking ahead enough, but it takes a lot of training and practice to get this good. The big problem is that 70% of drivers believe they're in the top 10%, most people vastly overestimate their own driving ability and only find out they're wrong when metal starts tearing.
Is there any truth in the old story of a US state which (for whatever reason) didn't have a speed limit but specifically outlawed driving at exactly 71mph, thereby having a way of prosecuting everyone going faster than that?
As far as I'm aware (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong) but your average code file is simply plain text, the colour formatting is applied by the program you're using to view/edit it. So it doesn't matter how you decide to colour it, when I load it into gedit the comments are blue. Or is this a discussion of the formatting preference button for text editors?
Which is why I host jquery locally (and a trimmed down version at that, I don't use all the features) and use the inbuilt logging that almost every server comes with.
It's still left hand and water. I wouldn't say "pleasant", it's more like "bracing"! You can buy toilet paper, but it's astoundingly expensive as it all has to be carried in by foot. I stayed outside Kathmandu for a few months and it was always a dug latrine and the left hand method. It's probably more hygienic than toilet paper as you pay a ridiculous amount of attention to your handwashing. It's also an extremely good way to remember that the locals don't touch each other or food with the left hand, I still check myself if I reach for food with my left hand.
You're describing a system that runs on any host, can be transferred easily, and is fully customisable by the user to show whatever text and pictures they want. Frankly, I struggle to see the difference between what you're talking about and "a website". OK, you've got connections to other users, but this isn't anything that can't be handled by an inbuilt XML feed in an agreed format. Define a common socialXML format for all websites with some fairly simple authorisation system (Oauth style) and you've got everything you need to make any website you can think of "social". If we're decentralising why lock everybody into the very small feature set of Facebook or whoever?
You've clearly not been anywhere near Himalayan base camps recently! It's cold and dry enough that the paper doesn't biodegrade easily, the locals call it "white men's prayer flags", it's everywhere. Not pleasant.
You've obviously not spent much time with the 50% of humanity who don't use it. Left hand, jug of water, attention to handwashing, job done, and more money to spend on frivolous stuff like your staple diet. Most of the world is already living the Zombie Plan lifestyle.
A fair call on all points, I won't say you're wrong with any of the above.
If I'm going to argue then I'd say screw the boss who's not able to deal with it, this is the point to bring in the no-win-no-fee lawyers and kick his/her backside. I'd say who cares that it's a mental disorder which still attracts more stigma than a physical one, and I'd repeat what I said above about (in my experience) an open and curious workplace being better than awkwardness.
I would, but I don't have a mental disorder beyond a high functioning borderline cases of Asperger's and depression, as most of us probably do, so I have no experience of being on the other side. If any of my colleagues has been dicks about it, however, I can assure you I'd be one of the very high number defending the person coming out.
That's kind of the point - if they don't know then the days off, unusual behaviour etc will simply mark you out as an awkward colleague, but if they know the reason behind you "not being normal" then they'll have a much better understanding of what's going on. Granted, some people will react with fear, suspicion or derision, but I think you'd probably be surprised at how few. The worst reaction I saw to my colleagues "coming out" was awkward embarrassment.
My last job included an employee with well controlled schizophrenia and another with moderate autism. The employer did all the right things as far as I'm aware, shorter hours and short-notice time off were available, and all of the management were made aware of the issues. There were plenty of staff meaning that unsuitable or particularly stressful jobs (eg dealing with large crowds at busy periods) could be avoided and the members of staff in question would pick up on the jobs more suited to them instead.
By far the most useful thing, however, were the pub trips after work. Both employees were quite happy to talk openly about their respective conditions, which took it from being a confidential, management-only issue to being an open one where people were encouraged to ask questions and understand how they could help the employees adapt. The chats over a beer/coffee were far more useful than any management policy could have been.
METAR data from airports is one possibility. I use it to style a website so the background changes to match the weather, with a thermometer and windmeter showing the respective info, clouds in the background and so on. It requires a fair bit of regex work, but it's usable. Resolution of one hour.
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Ha, ninja'd!
As below, so above, I agree with this.
If you've got engineers who are happy running wires around and have a basic knowledge of a *NIX OS then go for a Raspberry Pi. Power it from the aircraft's aux supply, USB for remote, SD card/s for your music storage, set playlists etc on the ground by plugging in a monitor, mouse and keyboard. No lock-in, entirely open source, easy to integrate with the systems however you like and no wireless signal for the FAA/CAA etc to worry about.
On reading the headline I had to stop and try to remember what the FB in FBI stood for. Just for a moment. Scary moment.
Incorrect. Kinetic energy is a square law.
If car A is going 10m/s faster that a car B (which is doing 50m/s) then car A is carrying 1100 extra energy units.
If car A is going 10m/s faster that a car B (which is doing 70m/s) then car A is carrying 1500 extra energy units.
Slowing from 80m/s to 70m/s is 36% harder than slowing from 60m/s to 50m/s, despite both having a 10m/s reduction in speed.
This all discounts the fact that all of the trees, bridges etc have a speed of 0m/s. Going at the same speed as another car doesn't help when you hit a tree.
Yup, there are drivers who can drive without using the brakes because they're looking ahead enough, but it takes a lot of training and practice to get this good. The big problem is that 70% of drivers believe they're in the top 10%, most people vastly overestimate their own driving ability and only find out they're wrong when metal starts tearing.
Is there any truth in the old story of a US state which (for whatever reason) didn't have a speed limit but specifically outlawed driving at exactly 71mph, thereby having a way of prosecuting everyone going faster than that?
As far as I'm aware (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong) but your average code file is simply plain text, the colour formatting is applied by the program you're using to view/edit it. So it doesn't matter how you decide to colour it, when I load it into gedit the comments are blue. Or is this a discussion of the formatting preference button for text editors?
Which is why I host jquery locally (and a trimmed down version at that, I don't use all the features) and use the inbuilt logging that almost every server comes with.
Don't rely on third parties to host code.
or vagina...
It's still left hand and water. I wouldn't say "pleasant", it's more like "bracing"! You can buy toilet paper, but it's astoundingly expensive as it all has to be carried in by foot. I stayed outside Kathmandu for a few months and it was always a dug latrine and the left hand method. It's probably more hygienic than toilet paper as you pay a ridiculous amount of attention to your handwashing. It's also an extremely good way to remember that the locals don't touch each other or food with the left hand, I still check myself if I reach for food with my left hand.
Water falls from the sky dude, quite regularly.
You're describing a system that runs on any host, can be transferred easily, and is fully customisable by the user to show whatever text and pictures they want. Frankly, I struggle to see the difference between what you're talking about and "a website". OK, you've got connections to other users, but this isn't anything that can't be handled by an inbuilt XML feed in an agreed format. Define a common socialXML format for all websites with some fairly simple authorisation system (Oauth style) and you've got everything you need to make any website you can think of "social". If we're decentralising why lock everybody into the very small feature set of Facebook or whoever?
Finally somebody starts to get it. When you make it more convenient to pirate the game than to pay for it there's something badly wrong.
You've clearly not been anywhere near Himalayan base camps recently! It's cold and dry enough that the paper doesn't biodegrade easily, the locals call it "white men's prayer flags", it's everywhere. Not pleasant.
Preferable, although I'm not all that sure about the communal-wet-sponge-on-a-stick idea.
You've obviously not spent much time with the 50% of humanity who don't use it. Left hand, jug of water, attention to handwashing, job done, and more money to spend on frivolous stuff like your staple diet. Most of the world is already living the Zombie Plan lifestyle.
I think they're comparing RAM with solid state storage space, so it's even more nonsensical.
A fair call on all points, I won't say you're wrong with any of the above.
If I'm going to argue then I'd say screw the boss who's not able to deal with it, this is the point to bring in the no-win-no-fee lawyers and kick his/her backside. I'd say who cares that it's a mental disorder which still attracts more stigma than a physical one, and I'd repeat what I said above about (in my experience) an open and curious workplace being better than awkwardness.
I would, but I don't have a mental disorder beyond a high functioning borderline cases of Asperger's and depression, as most of us probably do, so I have no experience of being on the other side. If any of my colleagues has been dicks about it, however, I can assure you I'd be one of the very high number defending the person coming out.
Well...not every week.
Hence the mention of beer/coffee. I used to regularly go to the pub with an Islamic colleague, nowt wrong with ordering a glass of coke.
That's kind of the point - if they don't know then the days off, unusual behaviour etc will simply mark you out as an awkward colleague, but if they know the reason behind you "not being normal" then they'll have a much better understanding of what's going on. Granted, some people will react with fear, suspicion or derision, but I think you'd probably be surprised at how few. The worst reaction I saw to my colleagues "coming out" was awkward embarrassment.
My last job included an employee with well controlled schizophrenia and another with moderate autism. The employer did all the right things as far as I'm aware, shorter hours and short-notice time off were available, and all of the management were made aware of the issues. There were plenty of staff meaning that unsuitable or particularly stressful jobs (eg dealing with large crowds at busy periods) could be avoided and the members of staff in question would pick up on the jobs more suited to them instead.
By far the most useful thing, however, were the pub trips after work. Both employees were quite happy to talk openly about their respective conditions, which took it from being a confidential, management-only issue to being an open one where people were encouraged to ask questions and understand how they could help the employees adapt. The chats over a beer/coffee were far more useful than any management policy could have been.
The single greatest threat to privacy worldwide is users who don't read the stuff above "I agree" or "Authorize App".
METAR data from airports is one possibility. I use it to style a website so the background changes to match the weather, with a thermometer and windmeter showing the respective info, clouds in the background and so on. It requires a fair bit of regex work, but it's usable. Resolution of one hour.
These people, however, aren't "developers" and they're probably not going to "start coding" as per the headline.